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- Date Released: June 7, 2005
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Punk
- Label: Side One Dummy
The Christian skate-punk trailblazers at their sardonic peak.
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We Say...
The 2005 album by Christian skate-punk trailblazers MxPx on Side One Dummy was their first indie release in six years and probably their best album to date. Sonically, the album mixes the bravado and brevity of their earliest recordings with big, crisp production that thankfully resists sounding too much like a Mentos commercial. Lyrically Mike Herrera is at his sardonic peak here. The guy excels at playfully mocking the teenage angst-y problems of his audience with songs like “Young and Depressed,” but doesn’t forget to point to possible answers or to poke equal fun at his own self on tunes such as “Wrecking Hotel Rooms.” It’s hard to think of any other band who deliver crunchy, loud punk rock anthems for Christ with such panache.
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They Say...
Panic returns MxPx to the indie label ranks after a six-year sojourn at A&M. It sounds like it was the usual major-label shenanigans that drove them, fed up and tired, to L.A. imprint Side One Dummy. But regardless of what went down behind the boardroom doors, all fans really need to know is that Panic is MxPx's best album in years. The trio was lost in formula on 2003's Before Everything & After, their legitimacy as punk-pop veterans neutered by tepid balladry and production meddling. And in that sense, Panic is the band's true veteran statement, because it balances lyrics about being older (and sometimes wiser) with refueled musicianship. No string section overdubs here -- Panic keeps the emphasis on wrangling electric guitars and impatient, exciting rhythms (check the rowdy "Late Again"). Influentially, vocalist/bassist Mike Herrera and his mates still owe Green Day big. But there's a roughened Mike Ness sense to the vocals here, too, and the bashing attitude of Social Distortion and the Adolescents surfaces in "Young and Depressed" and "Get Me Out." (Herrera co-wrote the latter with Adolescents vet Steve Soto.) Of course, MxPx are no longer adolescents. But it's nice to hear them referencing what came before so directly, instead of detouring into the high volume ad jingle-ready pap major labels love salivating over. "Darkest Places" and "Cold Streets" are straightforward ragers with thick basslines, "woah! woah!" backing vocals, and shout-along choruses; the stronger vocal melodies of "Heard That Sound" and "Wrecking Hotel Rooms" carry them into more mature territory; and "Kicking and Screaming" features the sickest, fullest guitar tone of MxPx's entire career. Panic is as accessible as any of the baby pop-punk startups, but MxPx go further by threading the impulsiveness of before everything happened with the stronger songwriting of the days that came after.
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The Darkest Places |
2:35 |
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| 02. | |
Young And Depressed |
3:05 |
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| 03. | |
Heard That Sound |
3:40 |
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Cold Streets |
2:46 |
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The Story |
3:31 |
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| 06. | |
Wrecking Hotel Rooms |
3:27 |
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Late Again |
2:35 |
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Kicking And Screaming |
2:52 |
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| 09. | |
Grey Skies Turn Blue |
3:04 |
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Emotional Anarchist |
2:02 |
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| 11. | |
Call In Sick |
3:00 |
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Get Me Out |
2:10 |
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| 13. | |
Waiting For The World To End |
3:46 |
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| 14. | |
This Weekend |
3:21 |
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14 Total Tracks, 41:54 Total Length
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Credits
- Stephen Egerton - Producer // Gavin MacKillop - Organ (Hammond) // Gavin MacKillop - Producer // Gavin MacKillop - Engineer // Gavin MacKillop - Mixing // Jack Parker - Guitar // Jack Parker - Soloist // Mauro Rubbi - Engineer // Mark Hoppus - Vocals (Background) // Patti Day - Choir, Chorus // Joe Sib - A&R // Tom Wisniewski - Guitar (Acoustic) // Tom Wisniewski - Guitar // Tom Wisniewski - Guitar (Rhythm) // Tom Wisniewski - Vocals (Background) // Tom Wisniewski - Choir, Chorus // Tom Wisniewski - Group Member // Yuri Ruley - Percussion // Yuri Ruley - Drums // Yuri Ruley - Vocals (Background) // Yuri Ruley - Choir, Chorus // Yuri Ruley - Group Member // Andy Husted - Choir, Chorus // James Barrett - Vocals (Background) // James Barrett - Choir, Chorus // Robert Lloyd Martin - Choir, Chorus // Seth Alan Roberts - Vocals (Background) // Seth Alan Roberts - Layout Design // Louis Defabrizio - Vocals (Background)
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